AFFECT US UNTIL SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS. THREE DEBTLY PLANE CRASHES HAVE HAPPENED IN THAT SAME AREA SINCE 2003. RAISING FEARS ABOUT THE RISKS OF LEAVING NAIR CRAIG AIRPORT. PILOT AND TWO DAUGHTERS WERE KILLED. 60-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL HUBER, 20-YEAR-OLD TESS HUBER AND ABIGAIL HUBER. BRINGING HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER BACK TO JACKSONVILLE WHERE SHE WAS A SOPHOMORE. THEY LEFT THEIR HOMETOWN YESTERDAY FOR JACKSONVILLE AND CRASHED DOWN INTO A RETENTION POND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ON NETTINGTON COURT ABOUT ONE MILE AWAY FROM CRAIG AIRPORT. CHANNEL 4 SCOTT JOHNSON HAS BEEN TALKING WITH HOMEOWNERS IN THAT AREA ABOUT CONCERNS OVER OTHER CRASHES THAT HAVE HAPPENED NEARBY. THIS PLANE CRASH RIGHT BEHIND ME, THEY HAD TO TAKE OUT THE FENCE BEHIND THIS HOME IS A RETENTION POND. THAT'S WHERE THE PLANE WEPT IN. WENT IN. NOW THE QUESTION IS, COULD THIS PLANE HAVE CAUSED MORE DAMAGE? COULD IT HAVE HIT HOMES BECAUSE THIS HAS HAPPENED THREE TIMES IN ROUGHLY THE LAST DECADE. THE CRASH IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT SOMETHING PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN SUTTON LAKES WORRIED ABOUT, BUT ANOTHER THEY ARE STARTING TO. DO YOU THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED? PROBABLY. IS SPECIALLY SOMEBODY COMING INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD AND BUYING A HOUSE, THEY SHOULD LOOK INTO THINGS LIKE THAT AND SHOULD BE TOLD THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED AND IT COULD HAPPEN. ANN GLESNER HAD TO THINK ABOUT IT, ABOUT YOU HE REMEMBERS WHEN HE BOUGHT THE HOUSE, THERE WAS SOME WORDING IN THE CONTRACT THAT THEY LIVED IN THE FLIGHT PATH OF AN AIRPORT BUT NOT AS MUCH AS HE HAD IN ANOTHER STATE. MY WIFE SAID THAT SHE REMEMBERED SEEING SOMETHING BRIEFLY IN THE PAPERWORK FOR BUYING THE HOUSE, THAT THERE WAS A NOTIFICATION THAT WE WERE LIVING NEAR AN AIRPORT. IT STUCK OUT IN MY MIND THAT THERE WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS AMPLIFIED THAN WHAT I RECALLED SIGNING UP FOR IN WASHINGTON WHERE THEY LAID OUT A MAP WITH ZONES AND WHAT LEVEL OF NOISE YOU WERE EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE. SO I MET UP WITH DAVID ELLIOTT, REAL ESTATE AGENT WITH KELLER WILLIAMS WHO SAYS BUYERS TYPICALLY DON'T LOOK AT SAFETY IF THEY ARE BUYING AROUND AN AIRPORT, USUALLY JUST THE NOISE AND SELLERS HAVE TO DISCLOSE IN A PROPERTY IS IN A NOISE ZONE BUT NOT A HISTORY OF CRASHES. A BUYER SHOULD ALWAYS DO IS TO GO TO THAT AREA THAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT PURCHASING AND WALK AROUND, DRIVE AROUND AND JUST SEE IF -- HOW BAD THE NOISE IS. SO NOW AFTER A MAN AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS CRASH AND DIE IN THIS POND, LOCALS IN SUTTON LAKES START TO WONDER, COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN. WE HAD A PLAN CRASH A WHILE BACK, TOO, DOWN ON THE CORNER IN THE PARKING LOT. WE ARE HALF MILE FROM THE LANDING STRIP ANYWAY. AND I TALKED TO A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY IF THERE ARE MAPS AVAILABLE PUBLICLY FOR DANGERS AND RISK. THEY SAY THE NOISE ABATEMENT MAPS, SHOW THE AREAS AROUND CRAIG, HOW NOISY THEY ARE. THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE. NOT WHERE CRASHES HAVE HAPPENED, WHERE THERE ARE LANDING STRIPS, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS A LITTLE HARDER TO FIND. LIVE ON THE SOUTH SIDE UNTIL THE SANDALWOOD AREA, SCOTT JOHNSON, CHANNEL 4 THE LOCAL STATION. SCOTT, WHAT'S THE TIME FRAME ON THE INVESTIGATION INTO THIS CRASH? I TALKED TO THE NTSB ABOUT THAT, FIVE BUSINESS DAYS THIS WILL WE GET PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OUT BUT THE WHOLE INVESTIGATION TAKES ROUGHLY SIX TO NINE

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

A plane crash in a residential Sandalwood neighborhood is not something people who live in the Sutton Lakes neighborhood had ever worried about.

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Sunday night's plane crash that killed pilot Michael Huber and his daughters, Abigail and Tess (pictured, below), has many neighbors worried about how close they live to Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport.

"Especially if someone's coming into an area they need to be told that this could happen and this has happened," said Rashanna Rivera.

Channel 4 spoke with neighbors in Sandalwood on Monday night, who said people who move to the area should be told of the potential plane crash dangers.

"My wife said she remembered something briefly in the paperwork that there was notification that we were living near an airport," said Dan Glesener. "It's like out of my mind that it's somewhat significantly less than what I signed in Washington where it showed
maps and level noise expected to experience."

"We had a plane crash not too long ago in a parking lot," said David Cook. "The planes are always so close when they fly here anyway. They're not really high and they're a half mile from landing strip anyway."

While there is always a risk of a crash in flight, Jacksonville High Time Helicopter pilot Bill Hay told Channel 4 flying is just as safe as riding in a car.

"Is it dangerous for the folks that live around the airport, my opinion, I've got a biased interest. I am a pilot, no it's not inherently dangerous to live near an airport," said Hay. "Is it sometimes noisy? Yes. Can it be dangerous in instances like this, yeah, but you know you take chances everywhere you go. We take chances driving on the street at night. Flying is a safe form of entertainment. It's a safe form of transportation. Anybody that does it is trying to do it, the best they possibly can at their sport."

Channel 4 also spoke Monday night with David Elian. Elian is a real-estate agent with Keller Williams. Elian said people typically do not look at safety if they're buying a home around an airport, just the noise situation. Elian said his sellers have to disclose if the property is in a noise zone, but not if it has history of crashes.

"There's always gonna be a danger with living near an airport," said Elian. "The best thing I can say with buyers is go to that area, walk around, drive around and see how bad that noise is."

A number of professionals in the aviation field told Channel 4 that there really aren't any records kept of what would be considered danger zones around area airports. The only thing kept on file are noise abatement maps that show where noise is an issue.

Hay told Channel 4 he believes there are two possible scenarios as to why Huber's plane went down Sunday night.

"I think the NTSB is going to come back with two possible scenarios. The first is going to be a stall cock pit workload, got distracted, lost too much airspeed, the aircraft stalled and made impact with terrain," said Hay. "The other is a possible overloaded cockpit meaning that he was doing too many things trying to find a way to get down and possibly flew the aircraft into terrain."

Hay said the fog in the air Sunday night created a perfect storm of problems, causing Huber to go down. Hay said that he had met Hubert a few times at Craig Airport and that he was an experienced pilot.

"Fog can come and go in 20 or 30 minutes and when he took off out of Ft. Pierce, it may have been fine. Of course, there were some indications that the weather was going to get bad, but along the route he had an hour to think about it – no pilot takes off with the idea it's bad, whether where I am going to land but I am going to do it anyway," said Hay. "They just don't do it. He did the best he could with what he had to do."

The NTSB will spend 6 to 9 months investigating the cause of Sunday night's crash. So far, the NTSB said it appears Huber was using the electronic instrument landing system when the plane was approaching Craig Airport. NTSB will review all of the available radio traffic and flight data.

"Tomorrow and Wednesday, we'll be going through wreckage, documenting, looking for discrepancies," said NTSB's Robert Gertz. "The pilot, the machine and the environment. By pilot, I mean we'll document all recent experiences. The FAA will conduct a toxicological test, which is pretty standard in a fatal accident."

The NTSB expects preliminary findings to be released in five to ten business days.

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